Monday rolled around- I went to work had a very typical day... taught class, disciplined students, had 3 people tell me I was huge and was having an enormous baby (or twins), belly rubbing, restroom break, more belly rubbing, lunch, reading, recess, dismissal, office visit to talk about the day and when "Baby Sid" was going to come... mind you no where in this day are there contractions (and I had had my fair share of contractions prior to this day). I get home and chill out, watch some TV and then go to sleep (fairly early- I missed Dancing with the Stars). At about 11:50 pm I got up for my nightly potty break and got back into bed to enjoy a night's rest filled with tossing and turning and uncomfortable positioning! Just as I get comfortable I peed my pants (or so I thought)- as I jump up and try to squeeze the urine in to keep it from coming I realized that the pee just won't stop trickling. As I make it back to the restroom I announce to Ricas that I think my water broke (although I wasn't quite sure, because on TV it seems that it's a gush of water; coupled with the fact that only 5% of women's water break at the onset of labor). So here we are scrambling around the house trying to throw last minute things into our hospital bags and get everything to the car. When we got to the hospital and got checked in I walked up to LD where the nurse checked my fluids and upon initial exam said that it was not my water that had broken. When she went in to get a better fluid sample the test strip still didn't change colors but she noticed that the fluid contained meconium. Needless to say they finally got the color they needed to verify I was in labor, but with no contractions... so the pitocin began (2 am). At 7 am I was about 2 cm dilated and was beginning to feel stronger contractions, after 2 doses of stadol and no pain relief (just extreme sleepiness) I got the epidural... HEAVENLY!
At 5 cm dilated and 80% effaced they changed my contraction monitor to see if the contractions I was having were internally as strong as they showed to be externally- everything seemed to be going well but Caileb wasn't dropping into the birth canal. After about 2 hours of observation I was dilated to 8 cm, 100% effaced (my cervix had completely thinned out) and at a stage -2 (I needed to get to stage 3) Caileb wasn't dropping into the birth canal. The initial plan of action given by the nurse was to let me get to 10 cm and then try to "labor down"- get Caileb to drop while pushing, but my OB came in and said let's do a c-section. So 14 hours of labor and about 45 minutes in the surgery room I finally got to meet my son!
At 5 cm dilated and 80% effaced they changed my contraction monitor to see if the contractions I was having were internally as strong as they showed to be externally- everything seemed to be going well but Caileb wasn't dropping into the birth canal. After about 2 hours of observation I was dilated to 8 cm, 100% effaced (my cervix had completely thinned out) and at a stage -2 (I needed to get to stage 3) Caileb wasn't dropping into the birth canal. The initial plan of action given by the nurse was to let me get to 10 cm and then try to "labor down"- get Caileb to drop while pushing, but my OB came in and said let's do a c-section. So 14 hours of labor and about 45 minutes in the surgery room I finally got to meet my son!
The entire c-section wasn't that bad, but I had a horrible case of the shakes, so after I saw Caileb the I was given Demerol which put me to sleep so I don't recall much of what happened after the birth. I remember people being in the room and them bringing Caileb to me to nurse for the first time, but I was so groggy and numb that I could barely hold him on my own =( So they whisked him off to the nursery to do baby stuff while I slept away in the room, not even experiencing the reality that I was now a mommy.
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That is a long labor story... bless your heart. Now, I am just trying to figure out where baby Caileb is??? Thinking about you :)
The we was Caileb and I!!! Ricas went back to work
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